I can't speak for everyone, but I know that my comments certainly don't come from jealousy but from a love of this site. My observation was that as soon as the hall of fame was started (awarding members with 1000 posts) the content of the entire site took a drastic downturn in favour of any thread that could be given a quick and easy reply.

I am all for anything that increases BDSM knowledge and experience based discussion. It is not about decreasing non-BDSM topics. But it seems to me (and I have shared this opinion to several people long long before this thread was started) that various awards drastically reduced the level of participation in the BDSM specific threads.

I would be interested to hear from anyone else who was around in the pre-awards days to see if they had any of the same observations.